the.com/deployment
The moment your code stops being theory and starts being someone else's problem.
means The process of releasing software onto the servers or devices where people will actually use it.
from From French 'déployer', to unfold or spread out — originally military language for stretching troops out of marching column into battle line. English borrowed it in the same sense (deploying forces across a field), and 20th-century tech culture repurposed it for sending code out of the safety of development and into live, open terrain.
- friday rule
- Deploying on Friday is a confession of optimism
- staging lie
- Works in staging means nothing, production disagrees
- rollback plan
- The feature you actually need most, untested
- zero downtime
- Marketing term for downtime nobody admitted to